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November 21, 2012, 1:25 PM

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Peter Burrows / Bloomberg:

Jobs's Spaceship-Like Apple Offices to Arrive Later Than Planned — Apple Inc. (AAPL) said the construction of a new spaceship-like headquarters with a circular design in Cupertino, California, won't be completed until mid-2016, later than originally projected, as the company revises its plans.

Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:

Deloitte Denies Knowledge of Fraud at Autonomy — Deloitte is finally speaking up about Autonomy P.L.C. — and the accounting firm says it knew nothing about potential fraud at its onetime client. — The statement by Deloitte comes after Autonomy's parent, Hewlett-Packard …

More: Bloomberg

Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:

FBI Said to Be Looking Into HP's Allegations on Autonomy

More: Reuters, GigaOM, Bloomberg, Forbes and Reuters

DealBook:

In Hewlett's Claims About Autonomy, Legal Costs Could Pile Up

Jonathan Weil / Bloomberg:

Hewlett-Packard's Explanation Just Makes No Sense

More: ZDNet, The Register, DealBook, Bloomberg, Real Story Group Recent …, Reuters, Forbes, The Daily Beast, Guardian, Bloomberg, broadstuff, AllThingsD and PC Magazine

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft ‘Xbox TV’ device due in 2013 with casual gaming and streaming — A set-top box to compete with Apple TV and others — Microsoft is building an Xbox set-top box. Multiple sources familiar with Redmond's plans have confirmed to The Verge that the company plans to introduce …

More: Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com and Polygon

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple has solved its iPhone 5 supply problems - just in time — Ship times hit 2 weeks Tuesday and a spot check found it at 9 out of 10 of Apple stores — FORTUNE — Despite stock-outs, production hiccups and Foxconn worker unrest, it looks like Apple (AAPL) will have an iPhone 5 available …

More: CNET, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, Mashable!, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, App Advice and iClarified

Bloomberg:

U.S. Said to Waver on Antitrust Case Against Google — Google Inc. (GOOG) may skirt the most serious antitrust allegations under investigation by the U.S. as regulators waver on whether they can prove consumers are hurt by the way the company ranks its search results, three people familiar with the matter said.

More: Techdirt, Search Engine Land, The Verge, CNET, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Datamation.com, Skift and AllThingsD

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

FCC chairman backs Dish Network plan to compete with wireless giants — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday proposed to greenlight Dish Network's long-fought plan to create a wireless service that would compete with those of giants AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

More: CNET, PC Magazine, The Register, MobileBurn.com, GigaOM, Phone Scoop, dailywireless.org and DISH

Mike Dano / FierceWireless:

Dish blasts FCC's rules for its AWS-4 spectrum

More: SlashGear, Reuters and Deadline.com

Will Connors / Digits:

NTSB May Drop BlackBerrys for iPhones, Citing Reliability — Research In Motion Ltd. may be losing another U.S. government customer, but this time the reason isn't fickle employees who prefer to carry around an iPhone. — The National Transportation Safety Board said it's looking to switch …

More: Bloomberg, AppleInsider, BGR, Network World, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, USA Today, Mac Weekend, TUAW, SlashGear, The Register, Ubergizmo, CNET and Datamation.com

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Ray of Hope? Carriers Seem to Like BlackBerry 10.

More: The Verge, BGR, NYT Bits and The Next Web

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

AT&T Seems to Be Extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular to All Customers — AT&T appears to be quietly extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular capabilities to all their iPhone customers. Earlier this month, AT&T announced that they would allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature.

Stephen Hall / WindowsWave:

Security Hole Allows Pirates to Get a Legitimate Windows 8 Activation for Free — A new security hole has been discovered in Microsoft's product activation process that allows pirates to get a free legitimate activation of Windows 8 using the current Windows Media Center upgrade promotion.

More: CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Neowin, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, WindowsClub News and Gizmodo. Thanks:@steqheu

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With Site Badges Debut, “Mobile First” Instagram is Catching Up to the Web — Building on the momentum of its Web profiles launch earlier this month, Instagram announced Wednesday the roll-out of badges, or small icons, that users can post to promote their Instagram pages. — They'll certainly look familiar.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget and Mashable!

Tammy Parker / Fierce Broadband Wireless:

T-Mobile exec: iPhone isn't worth sacrifices — T-Mobile USA has lost customers because it does not carry Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, but the company is not willing to make major sacrifices to add the device to its portfolio, said a T-Mobile executive. — “Make no mistake about it: We would love to carry the iPhone.

More: CNET, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, DailyTech, Forbes, T-Mobile Issues …, iFans, Gizmodo, Macgasm, Edible Apple and Mac Weekend

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

The Oatmeal sued over trademark by “Oatmeal Studios” — It's only been a few months since webcomic artist Matthew Inman, operating under the name The Oatmeal, was able to put his bizarre legal clash with competing humor website FunnyJunk to rest. — Now Inman is about to be back in court.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Betabeat, WebProNews and memeburn. See also Mediagazer

Dave Herman / Hulu Blog:

Hulu Plus Launching on Nintendo Wii U with Integrated Second Screen Experience — At Hulu's development center in Seattle, we spend our time focusing on making the Hulu Plus living room experience delightful for our subscribers. With our latest innovation, we've teamed up with Nintendo …

More: PC Magazine, VatorNews, CNET, SocialTimes, Cinema Blend Games, Geek.com, WebProNews, TechCrunch, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Polygon and destructoid

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes — Today Facebook will send its largest email blast to date, informing all 1 billion users that it's proposing to modify the site's governance structure and remove the ability for users to vote on changes.

More: ZDNet and Facebook Newsroom

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Google's Eric Schmidt Tells Parents To ‘Have Online Talk Before Sex Talk’ With Kids. Survey Suggests Many Do. — “We need to fight for our privacy or we will lose it,” said Google chairman Eric Schmidt to Reuters in a recent on-camera chat. “[All of the user generated material on the web] …

More: Pew Internet, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint and NYT Bits

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

World's oldest original digital computer is turned back on after 61 years — The world's oldest, original, still-working digital computer has been unveiled at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, the home of the United Kingdom's Second World War encryption and codebreaking efforts …

More: tnmoc.org, Tech Europe, ibtimes.co.uk, BBC and Mashable!

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple and HTC fine with showing license agreement to Samsung — but not the royalty rate — On Friday Samsung's counsel in the Apple case in California brought a motion to compel, demanding access to the newly-minted Apple-HTC license agreement that settled Apple's first Android patent case ever.

More: Mac Weekend and iDownloadBlog.com

Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:

‘No iPhone without Samsung patents’ — The chief executive of Samsung Electronics has expressed confidence about the ongoing patent battle with Apple, saying that no smartpohone can exist without patents from Korea's technology giants. — “The truth never lies.

More: iphoneincanada.ca

Richard Shim / DisplaySearch Blog:

Black Friday: Catalyst for Tablets to Far Surpass Notebook Shipments in North America — This year's Black Friday is expected to be the catalyst for tablets to pass notebook shipments for the first time in North America, a trend which we expect to continue for the foreseeable future.

More: Tech Trader Daily, PC Magazine, FierceWireless, The Tech Report and CNET

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Checking In on Foursquare's Valuation — Facebook's IPO, Flattening Valuations Put Hurdles Before Social Media Startups — Some social media startups are finding investors a lot less friendly in the wake of Facebook Inc.'s messy initial public offering. — A few months before Facebook went public …

More: Business Insider and FierceMobileContent News

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Baidu raises $1.5bn “strategic war chest” to pay off debts, pursue M&A opportunities and more — Chinese Internet giant Baidu has announced that it is offering $1.5 billion in notes as it looks to close down debts and provide itself with the financial cloud to pursue future strategic opportunities …

More: Dow Jones Newswires, Baidu, TechCrunch and ZDNet

Jake Smith / 9to5Google:

HTC DROID DNA now available from Verizon for $199 — We loved it. You might too. Today, the HTC DROID DNA is officially available from Verizon Wireless for $199 on two-year contract. For those that need a spec refresh, the DNA features a 5-inch, 1080p 441PPI display that seemed a little …

More: BGR, Engadget and SlashGear

Lisa Dembiczak / Reuters:

Microsoft vs. Google trial over patents finishes up — (Reuters) - A Google expert witness testified on Tuesday that Microsoft will make roughly $94 billion in revenue through 2017 from its Xbox game console and Surface tablet that use Google's patented wireless technology.

More: The Register, Droid Life, The Seattle Times, FOSS Patents, TechEye, Softpedia News, Inquirer, PhoneArena, CNET, Wall Street Journal and Neowin

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Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.

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